Old enough to wonder whether the entire AL West might have finished below .500 in 1994. The first-place team (Texas) was 10 under .500 at 52-62 at the time of the strike, with 48 games left.
My guess is St. Louis is the first to fall off this current pace. Playing well with their youth but not sure it’s sustainable. I think everybody else has a great chance to hang in this to the end and one or two good teams are staying home in October.
Once they start playing each other more the division average will move towards .500. They’d have to stay hot against non division opponents.
On pace in April…what are we doing here. Cool stat though
Really don’t think the pirates or cardinals are there quite yet. But it would be really fun
“On pace” predictions in any sports subreddit are so dumb
Thanks for giving NL Central the jinx-produced 10-game winning streak!
Isn’t it a bit early to try to predict this ?
It’s April
“on pace” is absolutely hilarious.
OP, why is it do you think that a whole division has never finished above .500 before?
Let’s pump the brakes
They haven’t even really had interdivisional play yet, this is so dumb lol
What’s cool, is that we are guaranteed to have the entire NL Central over 500 until at least April 23rd. I wonder how many times that has happened
Lmao we’re like 12% into the season, let’s relax.
Its not even May people
For one, it’s super early. But if it were to ever happen, it would just make up for all the years the central divisions in both leagues hovered around .500.
I wonder if abs has something to do with it.
I wouldn’t think so, the better stat is what’s the latest point into a season that this has been the case
They will play a total of 130 games against each other throughout the year. That’s 130 guaranteed losses (if spread five ways, 26 losses each just like that).
So far, they’ve played 6.
In April, no MLB team is on pace for anything. Just like a player that hits a home run in their first AB of the season is not “on pace” for 500 HR that season.
The division will have to go bananas vs non divisional teams for this to happen.
By all means, let’s extrapolate from the first three weeks of the season to a full six months.
21 comments
Old enough to wonder whether the entire AL West might have finished below .500 in 1994. The first-place team (Texas) was 10 under .500 at 52-62 at the time of the strike, with 48 games left.
My guess is St. Louis is the first to fall off this current pace. Playing well with their youth but not sure it’s sustainable. I think everybody else has a great chance to hang in this to the end and one or two good teams are staying home in October.
Once they start playing each other more the division average will move towards .500. They’d have to stay hot against non division opponents.
On pace in April…what are we doing here. Cool stat though
Really don’t think the pirates or cardinals are there quite yet. But it would be really fun
“On pace” predictions in any sports subreddit are so dumb
Thanks for giving NL Central the jinx-produced 10-game winning streak!
Isn’t it a bit early to try to predict this ?
It’s April
“on pace” is absolutely hilarious.
OP, why is it do you think that a whole division has never finished above .500 before?
Let’s pump the brakes
They haven’t even really had interdivisional play yet, this is so dumb lol
What’s cool, is that we are guaranteed to have the entire NL Central over 500 until at least April 23rd. I wonder how many times that has happened
Lmao we’re like 12% into the season, let’s relax.
Its not even May people
For one, it’s super early. But if it were to ever happen, it would just make up for all the years the central divisions in both leagues hovered around .500.
I wonder if abs has something to do with it.
I wouldn’t think so, the better stat is what’s the latest point into a season that this has been the case
They will play a total of 130 games against each other throughout the year. That’s 130 guaranteed losses (if spread five ways, 26 losses each just like that).
So far, they’ve played 6.
In April, no MLB team is on pace for anything. Just like a player that hits a home run in their first AB of the season is not “on pace” for 500 HR that season.
The division will have to go bananas vs non divisional teams for this to happen.
By all means, let’s extrapolate from the first three weeks of the season to a full six months.
Comments are closed.